M.A. Student
GSS Student Fed Representative, Spring 2026
B.A. History and Philosophy, Stanford University
“Our nation is at a crisis and only Hillsdale is positioned to train the next generation of leaders to redirect government towards its proper ends.”
Stephen grew up in Southern California and attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, receiving a B.A. in Philosophy and History, with an emphasis on the Philosophy of Law, Natural Law Jurisprudence and the History of the American Founding. He served as President of the Stanford College Republicans intermittently from 2019 to 2022, helping to host stalwart conservatives such as Dinesh D’Souza, Ben Shapiro, Governor Scott Walker, Matt Walsh, and Vice President Mike Pence in Stanford’s leftist echo-chamber, as well as vanquishing any opposition. He has been quoted in Fox News, Breitbart, Conservative Review, Campus Reform, and College Fix, and written for the Stanford Review, American Reformer, and the Davenant Institute’s Ad Fontes. He was a 2022 Hertog Political Studies Fellow, 2023 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow, Cotton Mather Fellow, and 2024 John Jay Fellow.
John Jay Fellow, 2024.
Claremont Institute Publius Fellow, 2023.
Hertog Political Studies Fellow, 2022.
Spanish
Mandarin
Latin
Between Reason and Revelation: A Review of Edward J. Erler's Prophetic Statesmanship: Harry V. Jaffa, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address." American Reformer, February 13, 2026.
Review of Hadley Arkes' Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution." Ad Fontes, June 23, 2025.
Natural Right and Our Historicist Constitution: A Review of Jonathan Gienapp's Against Constitutional Originalism." American Reformer, November 6, 2024.
Constitutional Law
Natural Law & Natural Right
"Public and Private Rights: Adjudication in the Administrative State," to be presented at the Florida State University Institute on Governance and Civics American Institutions Conference, Tallahassee, FL, March 2026.
"The Declaration of Independence as Binding Law," to be presented at the 2026 meeting of the Ciceronian Society, Omaha, NE, March 2026.
"Marlborough: His Life & Times," presented at the 2025 Intercollegiate Studies Institute Politics & Government Summit, Wilmington, DE, October 2025.